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Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities; Or, the Beginnings of Architecture (Paperback)
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Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities; Or, the Beginnings of Architecture (Paperback)
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Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
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(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1904 Excerpt: ...frontier, was modeled after the Dakota wigwam. The
conical tent or house was very common, and its use was very
widespread. We do not regard it as necessarily connected with the
hunter stage and yet it may be a good representative. There is no
doubt but that the hunters occupied a grade of society which was in
advance of that of the fishermen. Their relics would indicate this.
Both were in the stone age, but there were different degrees or
periods in this age. The use of pottery and of polished stone axes
has generally been regarded as a dividing line. Hunters used these;
fishermen did not, or if they did they were not as common among
them as among the hunters. The hunter life may be recognized by the
shape of the house as well as by the character of the implements.
In looking through the series of Catlin's paintings we find the
conical hut among the Comanches, the Crows, the Dacotahs or Sioux,
and the semi-conical among the Mandans; these were all hunters.
Park man says the Algonquins used the conical hut. It was the
typical house for all that region which intervened between the Ohio
River and the Great Lakes, and which extended out across the
prairies as far as the Staked Plain and New Mexico. It is
associated with hunter life, but is more common in the prairie
region than in the forests. The wild hunter tribes, who were always
on the move, would naturally prefer such a house, for it could
easily be taken down and was best adapted to the hunter's life. It
was the habitation which was common on the prairies, especially
among the Dacotahs. 2. We are next to inquire whether the house
architecture of the hunter is an index of their social grade. As to
this some would take the position that the form of the lodge was
owing to the climate and to the surroundings ...
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